With local history it is often the pictures that tell the story, before photography the pictures were all painted or drawn. The one above if by Turner and of Eastcliff Lodge in Ramsgate
This next one is also by Turner and of Margate, some sort of industrial building on the left, probably a tinning works. Basically coating iron and steel cooking utensils with tin to stop them going rusty.
this is the link to all the photos I took in Ramsgate yesterday
We went to Folkestone today, one of the last East Kent coastal towns where shopping is possible, and it makes a change from Canterbury.
I did a bit more to my painting from Chocolate Cafe in Folkestone.
I don't do shopping, but understand that you can't get Yorkshire tea and a decent chocolate muffin in Thanet
one that comes with molten chocolate
In Thanet I think the best you are likely to achieve is sponge cake coated with a mixture of butter and icing sugar, yuck. Why would anyone do such a thing?
Contemporary art that I think started with Duchamp's urinal, seems to attract grant funding but little interest from the general public. But fairly conventional decorative art seems to be alive and well.
Here is the link of the photos I took today in Folkestone
There are signs of large art based funding in Folestone and I wonder why we don't seem to be getting much here in Ramsgate
Ramsgate supports several privately run art galleries and a bookshop.
Here is the link to the books we put out yesterday
Ok I know if you want to make an animation you should bring a tripod , but it made me laugh
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